Okay, here's a new chapter. I know it's taking a while, but life decides to keep me busy with almost no free time.
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Stopping his sneaking to avoid Lycans, Shadow heard his stomach growl and rubbed it. Despite not having done much…he was starving and drained of his energy and he knew he needed a way to get blood. Hearing something stumble into a wall, Shadow's thoughts of hunger disappeared and replaced with survival and his fangs extended. Hiding against a wall, Shadow watched as a teenage girl with extended fangs staggered around, screaming incoherent things. Seeing her attempting to pull out her fangs, Shadow knew it was too late to help her and felt slightly queasy as she started to bite herself and pieces of skin and blood running down her body. Unable to see her suffering any longer, he grabbed a piece of wood and shoved it through the girl's chest. Looking at the girl once more as his fangs retracted, Shadow felt mixed emotions and raced away from the body.
Watching Shadow as he stabbed the other vampire in her chest through a monitor, the man gave a surprised look as he commented, "He staked one of his own? How interesting…In all my years as Game Master…that's something I haven't seen before…" He saw Shadow rub his stomach again and the Game Master looked at the other man in the suit. "It seems the vampires are getting a bit parched. Send them some blood."
"Which kind?" the other man questioned.
Giving a slightly nasty smile, the Game Master replied, "Both. We wouldn't want one of them to have an advantage now, would we?"
Still continuing down the hall and ignoring the growling from his stomach, Shadow stopped as he heard a noise from a nearby room and hesitantly entered the room to investigate. Seeing blood packs spread out in the center of the room, Shadow licked his lips and felt his fangs extend. He was so hungry and even one of the blood packs would help him get enough strength to stop being on defense and go onto offense. Getting ready to race to snatch one up, he stopped and thought about it. There was something suspicious about this; it was way too simple. Catching the glimpse of someone speeding past him, he saw Clarissa at the center with her fangs sunk into a blood pack and ravenously drinking it. Suddenly, the female vampire let go of the blood pack and collapsed to the ground, obviously in pain about something. Hearing a slight noise, Shadow quickly shinnied up to a ledge and watched silently as a pack of Lycans came out of nowhere and the apparent "leader" plunge a stake through Clarissa's chest. "Heh. That blood pack trick works every time," he bragged to the others, "get rid of the real blood and replace it with dead man's blood. The suckers eat it and it's like shooting fish in a barrel."
Able to tell the Lycans were not paying attention to him due to their boasting, he was able to get a good look to see his opponents. Of the nine in the pack, half were transformed into their wolf-like states on four legs or standing on two legs, and the rest were in human form and they were all well built. Holding his breath, Shadow waited until the pack of Lycans left to hunt down other vampires and were definitely gone before he leapt down and let out of the breath. Looking between the blood packs and the door, he was torn between gambling with the blood packs and maybe find a good one or just continue with his plan to find a way out. Sighing as he chose the latter of the two options, he silently snuck out of the room.
Staggering down the hall, Shadow grunted as he bumped into one of the stone walls, resisting the urge to empty the entire contents of his stomach everywhere and starting to get slightly dizzy. He desperately needed fresh blood so he would have an even slim chance of survival. He was so hungry; he could barely move. He was an easy target for the Lycans to hunt down and finish. Seeing a young girl extend her fangs and tear off the top of a blood pack, Shadow quickly went up to her and put his hand in front of it. "Careful. They switched some of the blood packs so they're filled with dead man's blood." He warned and the girl nodded.
Tearing the top of the blood pack off, the girl smelled it and confirmed, "You're right. This one is." She dropped it to the ground and pulled out three more blood packs. "I figured that since I found these ones...they were all good."
"Where'd you find those?" Shadow questioned.
"Just lying around every so often." The girl answered. She held out one of the blood packs to Shadow. "Here. You saved me. You can have one...but still test it just in case."
Nodding as he took the blood pack, Shadow tore the top off, smelled the blood, hid a smile as he caught the scent of fresh blood, and squeezed the blood into his mouth, instantly feeling some of his strength come back to him. "I'm Shadow. Who are you?" asked Shadow as he finished the blood pack and dropped it to the ground and the girl froze. "What is it?"
"They're coming." The girl told him and the pair quickly scaled a wall to one of the ledges.
Watching as they saw the pack coming down the hall and investigate the blood packs, he heard one of them inform, "That's one of the dead man's blood packs. It looks like it got a couple of them."
"Heh. Like taking candy from a baby." The leader replied with a nasty grin and Shadow and the girl waited until they could no longer be heard before looking at each other.
"Good call," Shadow complimented and the girl nodded, "so, what's your name?"
"My name's Kaye," she introduced, "how long have you been a vampire?"
"Just over a year," Answered Shadow, "and I'm betting you've been longer?"
"I've been 12 for almost 300 years."
"You look good."
"Do you know how many of us are left?"
"Well, I know that Clarissa got staked. That's how I was able to tell you about the blood packs. And there was another girl that must've gotten bitten or something. I couldn't stand looking at her in pain, so I staked her."
"I've seen a couple of others go too. I think their names were Jonathan and Stefan. And then that girl, Clove."
"So, there are just three others left?"
"Yeah. I think that all the other guys are still alive."
"Not quite. I took out one that was less that friendly to me."
"Still...that's 9 to 5. We have to form some sort of plan."
"Well, I think that we need to team up and get enough to fight back."
"Yeah. I've tried to convince some of them. They had an issue with my age."
"Me too. I think we might be able to stand a better chance if we work together." Shadow offered as he held out his hand.
"Okay." Accepted Kaye with a nod as she shook Shadow's hand and the pair smiled at each other.
Okay, so there's the chapter.
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